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Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 178, no. 39 | thursday march 14, 2013
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
Ring ring: halle Berry shines
in a more mature role in new
film the Call. PAGE 5
Falling flat: Men’s basketball
team ends its season with a
69-66 loss to utah. PAGE 12
event
By yasmeen serhan
daily trojan
Olympian distance runner,
World War II hero and celebrated
Alumnus Louis Zamperini spoke to
a maximum capacity audience about
the power of resiliance.
The event, entitled “The Great
Zamperini: USC Trojan, Olympian
and War Hero,” was hosted by the
Undergraduate Student Government,
USC Spectrum and Program Board in
conjuction with the Sol Price School
of Public Policy, the Kappa Sigma
Fraternity and the Student Alumni
Society.
The second event of the Student
Alumni Society’s 5 Traits of a Trojan
Speaker Series focused on the Trojan
trait of courage, and also included a
performance by the Sol Price School
of Public Policy color guard and a
video introduction by Zamperini’s
son, Luke.
Zamperini, who greeted the crowd
of students, faculty and alumni
sporting a cardinal and gold hat with
his hands poised in the ‘fight on’ sign,
spent the remainder of the evening
sharing stories of his life, notably his
8th-place performance in the 1936
Berlin Olympics, his experience being
stranded for 47 days after his aircraft
crashed into the Japanese-controlled
waters of the Pacific Ocean s and his
survival as a Japanese prisoner of war
during World War II.
Throughout the tales of his
time in the Japanese prison camps,
Zamperini described his two and a
half year survival as a time of little
hope.
“Every morning I woke up and
expected that this was the day,”
Zamperini said. ‘This is the day
they’re going to kill us.”
Resilience guides former
Olympian, prisoner of war
Louis Zamperini, USC alum
and olympian, was also a
prisoner of war in the 1940s.
| see olymPIAn, page 2 |
Priyanka Patel | Daily Trojan
Courage · USC alum Louis Zamperini speaks Wednesday at Bovard
Auditorium about how his Olympic and POW experiences shaped his life.
CriMe
By jordyn holman
daily trojan
Brandon Spencer, a suspect in the
Halloween shooting that occurred
near the Ronald Tutor Campus
Center and left four wounded, chose
to withhold a plea on Wednesday
during his preliminary hearing,
where he was charged with four
counts of attempted murder,
according to the Los Angeles County
District Attorney’s Office.
During the preliminary hearing,
the judge determined there was
enough evidence to proceed to an
arraignment. Spencer’s arraignment
will be held on March 28. If convicted
Suspect
withholds
trial plea
The 20-year-old suspect in the
on-campus Oct. 31 shooting
will be arraigned on March 28.
| see trIAl, page 2 |
religion
By isaBella sayyah
daily trojan
White smoke billowed from
the chimney of St. Peter’s Basilica
on Wednesday evening in Vatican
City, signaling the selection of a
new pope.
When the news reached Los
Angeles at noon, students had
diverse reactions to the election
of 76-year-old Argentinian
Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, the
first modern pope from Latin
America, who cardinals chose to
succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who
resigned Feb. 28.
“I’m really happy with their
decision because I think it’s time
that not a white, old, European
man controlled the church.
It’s kind of moving in a new
direction, so it will be nice to get
some diversity in our leadership,”
said Moriah Mulroe, a freshman
majoring in biochemistry and
practicing Catholicism.
Many Latino students at
USC agreed with Mulroe and
were enthusiastic about the
fact that Bergoglio hails from
Argentina. Edwin Francisco
Juárez Rosales, a Salvadorian
doctoral student in the electrical
engineering program and the
religious education chair at the
USC Caruso Catholic Center,
expressed optimism at the papal
selection.
“I’m really excited and
truly happy ... to have a Latin-
American pope for the simple
reason that Latin America
represents the largest percentage
of Catholics, including myself,”
Rosales said.
Heidi Mayen, a student worker
at El Centro Chicano, was also
pleasantly surprised by the news.
“I would have thought he
would have been a European
pope,” Mayen said.
Bergoglio chose the name
“Francis” for his papacy, making
him the first Pope Francis in
the church’s history. The name
Francis comes from St. Francis
of Assisi, whose prayer promotes
love and helping others. The name
is associated with inspirational
preaching and evangelization.
Bergoglio is also unique in
that he is the first Jesuit pope,
something several students were
excited about. The Jesuits are an
order of Catholic priests founded
by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the
16th century and are known for
their work in education.
Some students responded
positively to the new pope’s Jesuit
affiliation.
“I had a great time in Jesuit
[high] school and I thought that
their ideas about Catholicism
and life in general are really good
for society,” said Bryan Curtis,
a freshman majoring in civil
engineering.
Students optimistic about
first Latin-American pope
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio is
the first non-European pope
in more than 1,200 years.
| see PoPE, page 3 |
By chuck uzoegwu
daily trojan
A panel of students and faculty
shared their personal perspectives
concerning issues affecting
the United States’ Hispanic
population on Wednesday as
part of the weekly “Students Talk
Back” series.
Director of the Tomás Rivera
Policy Institute Robert Suro
moderated the panel for the
series, which was presented by
the Jesse M. Unruh Institute
of Politics, Sol Price School of
Public Policy’s Tomás Rivera
Policy Institute and the Sol Price
Bedrosian Center on Governance
and Public Enterprise.
Kevin Valero, a sophomore
majoring in business
administration and an
undocumented immigrant and
member of IDEAS Movement at
USC, spoke about the Dream Act
and potential he felt it held for
undocumented immigrants and
the United States.
Valero began by pointing to
his ignorance of his situation as a
child coming to the United States
at the age of five. Though aware
of his identity as a Mexican, he
was not aware of his status as
an illegal immigrant nor the
implications of this status until
he moved into high school and
began thinking about the future.
“I was very young, so I didn’t
know what moving from a country
was, and there was no stigma
attached to it,” Valero said.
“Being undocumented wasn’t
anything I thought about until
the later years of high school,
when I started thinking about my
future and paying for college.”
Valero encouraged members of
the audience to begin looking at
the human aspects of the illegal
immigration issue rather than
just the politics. The first step,
he stressed, was to stop using the
term “illegal immigration.”
“I take offense to the term
‘illegal immigrant’ because
how can I be illegal after being
brought to a land?” Valero said.
“It is dehumanizing.”
Continuing to emphasize the
human angles of the immigration
issue, Stephanie Canizales, a
doctoral candidate in sociology,
spoke about her work with
unaccompanied, undocumented
Panelists discuss impact of immigration
Students and community
activists urge people to avoid
the term “illegal immigrant.”
| see ACtIon, page 3 |
unruh
ralf cheung | Daily Trojan
Changing voices · President of Southwest Voter Registration
Education Project Antonio Gonzalez says perspectives shape politics.

Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 178, no. 39 | thursday march 14, 2013
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
Ring ring: halle Berry shines
in a more mature role in new
film the Call. PAGE 5
Falling flat: Men’s basketball
team ends its season with a
69-66 loss to utah. PAGE 12
event
By yasmeen serhan
daily trojan
Olympian distance runner,
World War II hero and celebrated
Alumnus Louis Zamperini spoke to
a maximum capacity audience about
the power of resiliance.
The event, entitled “The Great
Zamperini: USC Trojan, Olympian
and War Hero,” was hosted by the
Undergraduate Student Government,
USC Spectrum and Program Board in
conjuction with the Sol Price School
of Public Policy, the Kappa Sigma
Fraternity and the Student Alumni
Society.
The second event of the Student
Alumni Society’s 5 Traits of a Trojan
Speaker Series focused on the Trojan
trait of courage, and also included a
performance by the Sol Price School
of Public Policy color guard and a
video introduction by Zamperini’s
son, Luke.
Zamperini, who greeted the crowd
of students, faculty and alumni
sporting a cardinal and gold hat with
his hands poised in the ‘fight on’ sign,
spent the remainder of the evening
sharing stories of his life, notably his
8th-place performance in the 1936
Berlin Olympics, his experience being
stranded for 47 days after his aircraft
crashed into the Japanese-controlled
waters of the Pacific Ocean s and his
survival as a Japanese prisoner of war
during World War II.
Throughout the tales of his
time in the Japanese prison camps,
Zamperini described his two and a
half year survival as a time of little
hope.
“Every morning I woke up and
expected that this was the day,”
Zamperini said. ‘This is the day
they’re going to kill us.”
Resilience guides former
Olympian, prisoner of war
Louis Zamperini, USC alum
and olympian, was also a
prisoner of war in the 1940s.
| see olymPIAn, page 2 |
Priyanka Patel | Daily Trojan
Courage · USC alum Louis Zamperini speaks Wednesday at Bovard
Auditorium about how his Olympic and POW experiences shaped his life.
CriMe
By jordyn holman
daily trojan
Brandon Spencer, a suspect in the
Halloween shooting that occurred
near the Ronald Tutor Campus
Center and left four wounded, chose
to withhold a plea on Wednesday
during his preliminary hearing,
where he was charged with four
counts of attempted murder,
according to the Los Angeles County
District Attorney’s Office.
During the preliminary hearing,
the judge determined there was
enough evidence to proceed to an
arraignment. Spencer’s arraignment
will be held on March 28. If convicted
Suspect
withholds
trial plea
The 20-year-old suspect in the
on-campus Oct. 31 shooting
will be arraigned on March 28.
| see trIAl, page 2 |
religion
By isaBella sayyah
daily trojan
White smoke billowed from
the chimney of St. Peter’s Basilica
on Wednesday evening in Vatican
City, signaling the selection of a
new pope.
When the news reached Los
Angeles at noon, students had
diverse reactions to the election
of 76-year-old Argentinian
Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, the
first modern pope from Latin
America, who cardinals chose to
succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who
resigned Feb. 28.
“I’m really happy with their
decision because I think it’s time
that not a white, old, European
man controlled the church.
It’s kind of moving in a new
direction, so it will be nice to get
some diversity in our leadership,”
said Moriah Mulroe, a freshman
majoring in biochemistry and
practicing Catholicism.
Many Latino students at
USC agreed with Mulroe and
were enthusiastic about the
fact that Bergoglio hails from
Argentina. Edwin Francisco
Juárez Rosales, a Salvadorian
doctoral student in the electrical
engineering program and the
religious education chair at the
USC Caruso Catholic Center,
expressed optimism at the papal
selection.
“I’m really excited and
truly happy ... to have a Latin-
American pope for the simple
reason that Latin America
represents the largest percentage
of Catholics, including myself,”
Rosales said.
Heidi Mayen, a student worker
at El Centro Chicano, was also
pleasantly surprised by the news.
“I would have thought he
would have been a European
pope,” Mayen said.
Bergoglio chose the name
“Francis” for his papacy, making
him the first Pope Francis in
the church’s history. The name
Francis comes from St. Francis
of Assisi, whose prayer promotes
love and helping others. The name
is associated with inspirational
preaching and evangelization.
Bergoglio is also unique in
that he is the first Jesuit pope,
something several students were
excited about. The Jesuits are an
order of Catholic priests founded
by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the
16th century and are known for
their work in education.
Some students responded
positively to the new pope’s Jesuit
affiliation.
“I had a great time in Jesuit
[high] school and I thought that
their ideas about Catholicism
and life in general are really good
for society,” said Bryan Curtis,
a freshman majoring in civil
engineering.
Students optimistic about
first Latin-American pope
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio is
the first non-European pope
in more than 1,200 years.
| see PoPE, page 3 |
By chuck uzoegwu
daily trojan
A panel of students and faculty
shared their personal perspectives
concerning issues affecting
the United States’ Hispanic
population on Wednesday as
part of the weekly “Students Talk
Back” series.
Director of the Tomás Rivera
Policy Institute Robert Suro
moderated the panel for the
series, which was presented by
the Jesse M. Unruh Institute
of Politics, Sol Price School of
Public Policy’s Tomás Rivera
Policy Institute and the Sol Price
Bedrosian Center on Governance
and Public Enterprise.
Kevin Valero, a sophomore
majoring in business
administration and an
undocumented immigrant and
member of IDEAS Movement at
USC, spoke about the Dream Act
and potential he felt it held for
undocumented immigrants and
the United States.
Valero began by pointing to
his ignorance of his situation as a
child coming to the United States
at the age of five. Though aware
of his identity as a Mexican, he
was not aware of his status as
an illegal immigrant nor the
implications of this status until
he moved into high school and
began thinking about the future.
“I was very young, so I didn’t
know what moving from a country
was, and there was no stigma
attached to it,” Valero said.
“Being undocumented wasn’t
anything I thought about until
the later years of high school,
when I started thinking about my
future and paying for college.”
Valero encouraged members of
the audience to begin looking at
the human aspects of the illegal
immigration issue rather than
just the politics. The first step,
he stressed, was to stop using the
term “illegal immigration.”
“I take offense to the term
‘illegal immigrant’ because
how can I be illegal after being
brought to a land?” Valero said.
“It is dehumanizing.”
Continuing to emphasize the
human angles of the immigration
issue, Stephanie Canizales, a
doctoral candidate in sociology,
spoke about her work with
unaccompanied, undocumented
Panelists discuss impact of immigration
Students and community
activists urge people to avoid
the term “illegal immigrant.”
| see ACtIon, page 3 |
unruh
ralf cheung | Daily Trojan
Changing voices · President of Southwest Voter Registration
Education Project Antonio Gonzalez says perspectives shape politics.